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ἀνθρακίας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνθρακίας

Structure: ἀνθρακι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/nqrac

Sense

  1. a man black as a collier

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • κατηφεῖ δὲ ὄντι μοι καὶ ὀλίγου δεῖν δεδακρυμένῳ ἐφίσταται κατόπιν ὁ σοφὸσ Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ, ἀνθρακίασ τισ ἰδεῖν καὶ σποδοῦ ἀνάπλεωσ καὶ κατωπτημένοσ· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 13:4)
  • ἐμολύνετο δὲ πάντοθεν αἵματι ὁ τροχόσ, καὶ ὁ σωρὸσ τῆσ ἀνθρακιᾶσ τῆσ τῶν ἰχώρων ἐσβέννυτο σταλαγμοῖσ, καὶ περὶ τοὺσ ἄξονασ τοῦ ὀργάνου περιέρρεον αἱ σάρκεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:20)
  • ὡσ δ’ οὐχὶ φιλεῖ σ’ οὐδ’ ἔστ’ εὔνουσ, τοῦτ’ αὐτό σε πρῶτα διδάξω, ἀλλ’ ἢ διὰ τοῦτ’ αὔθ’ ὁτιή σου τῆσ ἀνθρακιᾶσ ἀπολαύει. (Aristotle, Agon, Epirrheme10)
  • Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Ὀδυσσεῦσιν εἴρηκε τὴν ὀξάλμην διὰ τούτων ἀνθ’ ὧν πάντασ ἑλὼν ὑμᾶσ ἐρίηρασ ἑταίρουσ, φρύξασ, ἑψήσασ, κἀπ’ ἀνθρακιᾶσ ὀπτήσασ, εἰσ ἅλμην τε καὶ ὀξάλμην κᾆτ’ ἐσ σκοροδάλμην χλιερὸν ἐμβάπτων, ὃσ ἂν ὀπτότατόσ μοι ἁπάντων ὑμῶν φαίνηται, κατατρώξομαι, ὦ στρατιῶται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 34 3:4)
  • ὧν ἐν τοῖσ Κασταβάλοισ ἐστὶ τὸ τῆσ Περασίασ Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἱερόν, ὅπου φασὶ τὰσ ἱερείασ γυμνοῖσ τοῖσ ποσὶ δι’ ἀνθρακιᾶσ βαδίζειν ἀπαθεῖσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 12:8)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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